Gravitational Lensing in Modified Gravity and the Lensing of Merging Clusters without Dark Matter
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Gravitational lensing in a modified gravity (MOG) is derived and shown to describe lensing without postulating dark matter. The recent data for merging clusters identified with the interacting cluster 1E0657-56 is shown to be consistent with a weak lensing construction based on MOG without exotic dark matter. e-mail: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2006